Day four of Indy 500 ends with wreck
Only two wrecks occurred during the fourth day of Indianapolis 500 practice, and both were committed by KV Racing.
Only two wrecks occurred during the fourth day of Indianapolis 500 practice, and both were committed by KV Racing.
IU (25-24, 10-11) faces Illinois (25-24, 9-12) in the final conference series of the year on Friday, with a chance to defend last year’s Big Ten Tournament championship on the line.
IU missed out on Walter Offutt last weekend and this week decided to not pursue Tennessee transfer Emmanuel Negedu. Negedu suffered from cardiac arrest while working out at Tennessee and sat out the 2009-10 season. After Tennessee doctors refused to clear him, he decided to transfer.
The IU volleyball team has been practicing all spring to this point — nearly six months removed from its last competitive match, save for a couple of small spring tournaments.However, the Hoosiers get their payoff Wednesday as they embark on an 11-day European tour for sightseeing and a series of matches against some of the continent’s top youth competition.
The women did not improve their team finish from 2009, finishing in fourth place again, but the men’s team moved up one spot to fifth. Minnesota won the men’s overall team championship, while Penn State won the women’s overall. But the Hoosiers, still a fairly youthful team, are not disappointed by their finish.
While Gary Harris, Jeremy Hollowell and Aaron Thomas all have received scholarship offers from the Hoosiers, this weekend marked the first time many of the Hoosier faithful caught a glimpse of the potential signees. The three players have become a hot commodity for several Big Ten and other Midwestern schools during this summer’s AAU circuit.
IU senior closing pitcher Chris Squires rebounded from two disappointing relief efforts to preserve the win in Sunday’s finale at Michigan State, but the Hoosiers now face a dogfight to make the Big Ten Tournament.
On May 15th, former four-star Warren Central recruit Walter Offutt chosen where he will play next season
The Hoosiers (24-22) capped a wild finish against Kentucky (26-22) when a two-out, 10th inning double from senior Michael Earley plated two runs to give IU the 18-17 win
On May 19, Ashley Benson and her IU volleyball teammates will begin a trip through Europe — uncharted territory — to face some of the finest youth players from Italy, the Czech Republic and elsewhere.
The Hoosiers look to be a force to be reckoned with this weekend at Robert C. Haugh Complex, where they will host this year’s conference championship, especially after the women’s team moved into the Division I top-25 rankings, up 12 spots from their previous rank of 34th. The team’s change in ranking is mainly a result of their success at Billy Hayes Invitational last week, where the men’s and women’s teams combined to win seven events.
The IU men’s basketball team has achieved a 3.16 GPA for the spring semester, according to coach Tom Crean.
The Hoosiers (23-22, 9-9) won a pitchers’ duel 1-0 over Northwestern (21-27, 10-8) in the series finale and deciding game in their 3-game series at Rocky Miller Park Sunday.
Senior Molly Beckwith set a new track record in the 800-meter run, with a time of 2:02.18. Beckwith broke her own track record, set at last year’s Billy Hayes Invitational, by more than .30 seconds. Beckwith’s time is the third-fastest of an American and second-best on the Division I list this outdoor season. It is the second-fastest all-time in Indiana history.
The IU Athletics Department added a new administrator — one who has worked for the NCAA since 1999 — as the replacement for the current senior associate athletics director for Compliance and Administration.
The Hoosiers finished 31 shots out of eighth place, which is the cutoff for teams advancing to the NCAA Championships from May 18 to 21.
Guy-Marc Michel, a native of Sainte-Marie, Martinique, played at North Idaho College the past two seasons before signing a national letter of intent for IU on May 7. The seven-foot-one-inch, 256-pound center averaged 7.1 points and 7.3 rebounds per game as a sophomore for the Cardinals last season, and he led the Scenic West Athletic Conference in blocked shots for the second year in a row.
This phrase embodies the hope echoed throughout the IU track and field community — that the renovations to the outdoor track facility will make the school a Midwestern hub for the most talented athletes in the world.
The IU women’s softball team will look to West Lafayette as they attempt to break their losing streak of seven games in this weekend’s series.
Smith hopes that the more focused approach will allow his Hoosiers (21-21, 7-8) to come away successful from this weekend’s conference series at Northwestern (20-25, 9-6)